Capture of Nam Định

When

27 Mar 1883

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

20.42° N, 106.17° E

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

The Capture of Nam Định, a confrontation between the French and the Vietnamese, was one of the early engagements of the Tonkin Campaign (1883–86). In a brief campaign in the last week of March 1883, Commandant Henri Rivière captured the citadel of Nam Định, the second-largest city in Tonkin, with a flotilla of gunboats and a battalion of marine infantry.

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